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Pull me out of this (with vibraphone mallets).
Reproducing Fred again…’s songs for NPR’s Tiny Desk series “meant re-learning the marimba, playing the vibraphone, singing at the piano and looping sounds and beats—all at the same time.”
Alex Ross: The abundance of Max Richter’s minimalism in soundtracks suggests “we will dissolve into mist before the abyss opens.”
Alex Ross: The abundance of Max Richter’s minimalism in soundtracks suggests “we will dissolve into mist before the abyss opens.”
↩︎ The New Yorker
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Noah Smith: Europe’s stuck in an era of “harmonious stasis,” which is problematic if it truly wants to become a third superpower.
Noah Smith: Europe’s stuck in an era of “harmonious stasis,” which is problematic if it truly wants to become a third superpower.
↩︎ Noahpinion
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Although 52 countries oppose Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and 12 laud it, 127 can be categorized as not being in either camp.
Today, non-aligned countries are not defined by their membership of an institution, but rather by their characteristics and behaviour. These middle powers are pragmatic and opportunistic.
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A neuroscientist says the better we understand the biological basis of rhythm, the better we understand ourselves.
Both beat-keeping and rhythm-pattern skills predict language development and reading ability; however, only rhythm-pattern ability has a bearing on understanding speech in noise.
↩︎ The MIT…
Greater Los Angeles has seven different Depeche Mode tribute bands. They do not all get along.
Greater Los Angeles has seven different Depeche Mode tribute bands. They do not all get along.
↩︎ Stereogum
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The original version of phasing?
Percussionist Larnell Lewis explains drumming (on a drum set) and drum patterns in 13 levels of difficulty. From WIRED’s frequently good “levels” series of videos.
Psychogeographic space
Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota weaves a complex web in the lobby of Los Angeles’s Hammer Museum. From the artist statement:
Chiharu Shiota (b. 1972, Osaka) is a Berlin-based artist whose installations, sculpture, and performance art invoke psychogeographic spaces of memory, emotions, and the cyclical nature of life and death. Using red, black, or white yarn as a base material, Shiota often creates meticulously webbed environments that span the length of entire galleries and mimic organic forms such as cobwebs, veins, and fractals.